Display stand
March 25th, 2010 No Comments » RSS 2.0 Pingback
I finally managed to finish the design for the display stand – something that took considerably more effort than it perhaps should have. I find so many ideas start out simple. Developing these ideas adds layers which give it depth, but also erode the simplicity of the original idea. I find latter stages almost always involve whittling things back to capture the freshness of the original idea. This is certainly something that I’ve found holds true in any of the creative fields I’ve worked in – music, design, writing, photography, but then this might also be an approach which is specific to me – after all, if we all approached creating things the same way, then the chances are we wouldn’t come up with much creative!
This display stand has been designed as a point of sale to display musical instruments. I originally had all the profiling of the material cut by the amazing process waterjet cutting – a high pressure stream of water which can cut through most things including metals, wood and stone. As you can probably imagine the foam and ali used on the stand didn’t cause it too much problem. The waterjet however couldn’t replicate the detail as seen on the top plate, and so laser profiling emerged as the best way to do this – more expensive but able to handle fine detailing much better. Both processes pretty new to me, it was a really interesting project to work on and should open up some doors in the future.
